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The Outsider: A Novel (originale 2018; edizione 2018)

di Stephen King (Autore)

Serie: Holly Gibney (4)

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Fiction. Horror. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:Now an HBO limited series starring Ben Mendelsohn!�?? *Evil has many faces...maybe even yours in this #1 New York Times* bestseller from master storyteller Stephen King.** An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is discovered in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens�??Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon have DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad. As the investigation expands and horrifying details begin to emerge, King's story kicks into high gear, generating strong tension and almost unbearable suspense. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy, but is he wearing another face? When the answer comes, it will shock you as only Stephen Kin… (altro)

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Utente:	Rachy_Bev
Titolo:	The Outsider: A Novel
Autori:	Stephen King (Autore)
Info:	Scribner (2018), Edition: First Edition, 576 pages
Collezioni:	Non-fiction, La tua biblioteca, In lettura
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While it did keep me entertained it wasn't quite as suspenseful and scary as I had hoped it would be. (

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vernilla | May 6, 2024 |

Let me begin with, I am not a Stephen King BOOK fan. By this I mean his stories literally haunt me, taking me to places in my mind where I find it difficult to manage and let the memories go; I cannot read his books. But his writing. Mr. King is simply the master and occasionally I will dip my toe into his water and what a pleasure it is. The way he describes a scene, a smell, a tree for that matter. The man's writing is genius. That being said, I took a chance, having a long drive from Idaho to Colorado, and listened to this book. In a word (or maybe two or three or more): Wow. Amazing. Incredible. And yes, unforgettable.

The Outsider is not the shocking horror that smacks one in the face with gore, not that I think that is the author's standard way, but it eases under one's skin and psyche, playing and teasing with the mind. Not fantastical in a way that is too out of reach, the Outsider toys with the idea that there are shapeshifters among us, persons, or rather beings, that slip into one's body, taking them over from the inside to do their bidding while their outside appearance remains the same. Oh, it was fun to read this book.

The Outsider will leave you thinking, wondering, and wishing for more. I believe there is a movie, perhaps a series, but if you are a reader and willing to open your mind to a bit of psychological mystery about the spirituality of one's inner self - you must read The Outsider. (

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LyndaWolters1 | Apr 3, 2024 |

This is a great offering from the King of horror....something alittle different....and alot disturbing....loved it!!! (

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Jfranklin592262 | Mar 14, 2024 |

I had stopped reading SK years ago, and then I read11/22/63, which blew me away! So I figured I would try this one out. And it was great! Good enough to motivate me to start Mr. Mercedes next. (

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jilldugaw | Jan 27, 2024 |

As a devoted Stephen King fan, I read - maybe I should say, devoured, this novel in three days as soon as I received it. I have to hand it to Mr King, the man can certainly tell stories! This one was a page turner, although to be fair, his books usually are. The story was very well told as only he can tell it. Briefly, Terry Maitland is a coach of prepubescent boys, one of whom is found murdered, grossly and very viciously. Terry is arrested because his DNA and other factors lead the police to believe they have found their killer. However as it turns out, Terry also has a verifiable alibi including witnesses and even a tv interview. The pace is heightened when unexpected things occur and new information is sought. I have read so many King novels and short stories that I am used to his style and prose. Every now and then he gives us little surprises and The Outsider contains several. If you have read some of his later novels, you will get the inside joke. The only complaint with the book and why I didn't give it 5 stars was because I felt the concluding chapters bogged down somewhat and didn't really explain everything well, In my honest opinion, I like that Uncle Steve is with it and makes references to many of our tech devices, social media and other items that did not even exist five or ten years ago. A nice touch to bring the story into 2018. (

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At nearly 600 pages, “The Outsider” isn’t exactly a streamlined thriller. Yet, it doesn’t feel bloated or self-indulgent. Anderson, Maitland and the supporting cast are so deftly drawn, their predicaments so fraught with menace, that the momentum of the narrative builds steadily and keeps the pages turning. In the background is the Outsider, a stranger in town, orchestrating tragedies seemingly on a whim. King cleverly keeps him at a distance for most of the book, letting his menace build by increments. By the time Anderson’s search for the truth leads to an abandoned mine in the desert, readers are unlikely to be able to put “The Outsider” aside for even a moment....Ultimately, “The Outsider” is about belief, the conscious choice to acknowledge that the universe is a stranger place than most people think it is. The Outsider is a wily opponent, who can survive because few are able to recognize him for what he is. They fail to protect themselves from his very real malice and destructiveness.

aggiunto da Lemeritus | modificaPortland Press Herald, Michael Berry (May 27, 2018)

What would it feel like to be so perfectly, completely implicated in the worst crime to ever befall a small town, and have perfectly, completely exonerating evidence you weren’t there? That’s the biggest question King explores in “The Outsider” as small-town cops and prosecutors are asked to believe the impossible — and find the impossible as well. Mob mentality, pedophilia, horrific violence — King never shies away from tough topics.

aggiunto da Lemeritus | modificaSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, Amanda St. Amand (May 26, 2018)

As with most of King’s work, “The Outsider” is at its heart an exploration of good and evil; except this time, skepticism blurs the lines between the two. Terry Maitland is by all accounts a solid family man, a beloved Little League coach, and, quite suddenly, the main suspect in the horrific mutilation and murder of a young boy. The physical evidence and eyewitness testimony against him are incontrovertible, though completely at odds with his reputation as a husband and father who for years has been a pillar of his insular Flint City, Okla., community....No book is perfect, but Stephen King is reliably closer than most. He has always excelled at writing about real people tested by unreal situations, whether it’s told in the unbroken narrative of Dolores Claiborne or via the mental lockboxes of Doctor Sleep. With “The Outsider,” if you can accept that a contemporary man in his late 40s recalls quoting “Our Gang” with his kid brother instead of the Fonz or even Pee-wee Herman, you’re in for one hell of a ride.

aggiunto da Lemeritus | modificaWashington Post, Karin Slaughter (sito a pagamento) (May 22, 2018)

More than 50 novels published, and he’s still adding new influences to his work. I can think of a great many literary writers who are far lazier about their range of inspirations and interests. This expansiveness allows King to highlight the idea that whether we’re talking about Mexico or Maine, Oklahoma or Texas, people the world over tell certain stories for reasons that feel much the same: to understand the mysteries of our universe, the improbable and inexplicable.... Here’s to mutant rats in the basement and Mexican myths; here’s to the strange and to Stephen King. Still inspiring.

aggiunto da Lemeritus | modificaNew York Times, Victor Lavalle (sito a pagamento) (May 22, 2018)

There’s plenty of shadowy, wormy supernatural goings-on in Stephen King’s new novel The Outsider. Yet the most unsettling stuff — that which will leave you uncomfortable when you sit and devour this first-rate read — probes the monstrous side of human nature....How does a place deal when the very best of them does the very worst thing imaginable? How does that man’s family and the family of the deceased boy go on living? And what of the cops who are faced with what seems like an impossible situation? The author plumbs to the gloomy depths with his cast before letting off the gas and giving them — and the reader — some needed hope....In King’s hands, real darkness is just as pervasive as the supernatural.

aggiunto da Lemeritus | modificaUSA Today, Brian Truitt (May 21, 2018)

The story switches from King’s graceful head-hopping third-person narrative to a transcript of official statements from key personnel in the prosecution’s case, a formal change that nods to the statements and newspaper extracts King used throughout his debut, Carrie. A well-researched, finely tuned crime-cum-legal case novel forms a good chunk of the book ... The supernatural elements have more than a little in common with some of King’s most beloved creations, especially in the vague way he conveys what they actually are. He has always understood that the mystery – the question – is scarier than finding out the truth ... That’s not to say the whole novel works. It takes a couple of hundred pages for the weirdness to get started, and the sense of the uncanny pervading the entire novel means that the more horrifying elements fail to surprise when they eventually arrive. But The Outsider gives King fans exactly what they want at the same time as cramming in new ideas, proving the least surprising thing of all: that his novels are as strong as they ever were.

aggiunto da Lemeritus | modificaThe Guardian, James Smythe (May 18, 2018)

Horrormeister King (End of Watch, 2016, etc.) serves up a juicy tale that plays at the forefront of our current phobias, setting a police procedural among the creepiest depths of the supernatural....Snakes, guns, metempsychosis, gangbangers, possessed cops, side tours to jerkwater Texas towns, all figure in King’s concoction, a bloodily Dantean denunciation of pedophilia. King skillfully works in references to current events (Black Lives Matter) and long-standing memes (getting plowed into by a runaway car), and he’s at his best, as always, when he’s painting a portrait worthy of Brueghel of the ordinary gone awry....Not his best, but a spooky pleasure for King’s boundless legion of fans.

aggiunto da Lemeritus | modificaKirkus Reviews (May 5, 2018)

What begins as a manhunt for an unlikely doppelgänger takes an uncanny turn into the supernatural. King’s skillful use of criminal forensics helps to ground his tale in a believable clinical reality where the horrors stand out in sharp relief.

aggiunto da Lemeritus | modificaPublisher's Weekly (Mar 19, 2018)

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Nome dell'autore	Ruolo	Tipo di autore	Opera?	Stato
King, Stephen	—	autore primario	tutte le edizioni	confermato
Briasco, Luca	Traduttore	autore secondario	alcune edizioni	confermato
Patton, Will	Narratore	autore secondario	alcune edizioni	confermato
Staehle, Will	Immagine di copertina	autore secondario	alcune edizioni	confermato

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Audie Award (Finalista – Thriller/Suspense – 2019)

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Thought only gives the world an appearance of order to anyone weak enough to be convinced by its show.
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"The Country of the blind"

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It was an unmarked car, just some nondescript American sedan a few years old, but the blackwall tires and the three men inside gave it away for what it was.

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Detective Anderson: Avete chiacchierato durante il tragitto? Glielo chiedo perché lei mi sembra un'ottima conversatrice. Rainwater: Può dirlo forte! Ho la lingua più veloce del nastro trasportatore di un supermercato nel giorno di paga.

… sbucò una donna in avanzato stato di gravidanza, con un vestito a fiori senza maniche. … Aveva un cartellino plastificato appeso al collo, e appuntato al vestito, in bilico su un seno enorme, un distintivo della polizia di Flint City, fuori posto come un biscotto per cani su un piattino pieno di ostie per la comunione.

Terry gli lanciò una di quelle occhiate di cui solo un insegnante di liceo è capace: Sappiamo tutti e due che sei un idiota, ma non ti metterò in imbarazzo di fronte ai tuoi colleghi dichiarandolo a gran voce.

Avevano anche le facce dipinte di giallo e di nero – probabilmente era stata la madre a truccarle poche ore prima, quando il mondo che le circondava aveva ancora un aspetto amichevole e non si era rizzato sulle zampe posteriori per aprire una voragine nella loro famiglia, con un unico morso –, ma il viso della più piccola era tornato quasi al colore naturale, a furia di piangere.

«Copritevi la faccia, e lasciate scoperti solo gli occhi». Sorrise. «Come i banditi dei film, okay?» … Poi scesero e si avviarono a passo rapido sotto la luce aspra che proveniva dal furgone della tv, stringendosi gli asciugamani sotto il mento. Più che banditi, sembravano due beduini nani colti da una tempesta di sabbia. E sembravano anche le bambine più tristi e disperate che Alec avesse mai visto.

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«Chi è lei, signore? Come si chiama?» «Mi chiamo Cicci. E se ancora ti impicci, sono spine di ricci. … »

La porta si richiuse, scivolando obbediente sul suo binario, con il consueto rumore di ferraglia: almeno una cosa al mondo che rimaneva sensata e normale. Premendo il pulsante A, e dando per scontato che nello scomparto B ci siano due Duracell relativamente nuove, la porta del garage C si aprirà e si richiuderà.

«Scendi dall'auto, figliolo, e anche se mi sembri pericoloso come un cagnolino che caga nel bel mezzo di un temporale, tieni comunque le mani dove io possa vederle».

… ma Ollie era rimasto seduto sveglio, a fissare l'ascensore nel quale era scomparsa la madre, sicuro che se si fosse assopito lei sarebbe morta. «Non sei riuscito a vegliare un'ora sola?» aveva chiesto Gesù a Pietro, ed era un'ottima domanda, di quelle a cui non si riesce a rispondere.

«… Ovviamente la Scientifica sarà già sul posto, perciò io sarò utile come le tette su un toro, ma il capo…»

Il respiratore sibilava. Il torace di Fred Peterson ne scandiva il ritmo. Ogni tanto dai polmoni usciva un fischio stridulo, che somigliava stranamente a una risatina. Come se la vita fosse tutta uno scherzo cosmico, ma si dovesse entrare in coma per comprenderlo.

«Avevo un amico che me lo ripeteva di continuo», disse Holly, e tutto d'un tratto le venne da piangere. Era stata quell'espressione: ‘avevo un amico’. Ne era passato di tempo, e probabilmente il trascorrere degli anni avrebbe guarito tutte le ferite, ma Dio solo sapeva quanto fossero lente a rimarginarsi, certe piaghe. E la differenza tra ‘ho un amico’ e ‘avevo un amico’ era quasi un abisso.

Avrebbe provato ugualmente a persuaderle. Ognuno faceva quel che poteva, che si trattasse di risollevare una lapide o di provare a convincere uomini e donne del Ventunesimo secolo che c'erano degli autentici mostri, in questo mondo, e che il loro massimo vantaggio risiedeva proprio nel rifiuto, da parte delle persone razionali, di credere alla loro esistenza.

AREA CONTROLLATA DALLO SCERIFFO DI CONTEA. Come no, pensò Jack. Immagino che faranno una capatina da queste parti il 29 febbraio di ogni anno. Tranne quelli bisestili.

Ralph si rese conto all'improvviso di essere in mutande, con la patta senza bottoni sicuramente aperta su un lato. Gli tornò in mente una battuta che diceva sempre con i suoi amici, quando erano ragazzini: «Chi ti ha dato la licenza per vendere gli hot dog?»

«Ho avuti gli incubi anche dopo Brady Hartsfield. Tutte e due le volte. … All'inizio erano continui, poi, con il passare del tempo, si sono ridotti di parecchio». «Credi che spariranno mai?» «No. E non sono sicura di desiderare che accada. I sogni sono il nostro modo per entrare in contatto con il mondo invisibile, o almeno è questo che credo. Sono un dono speciale».

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Fiction. Horror. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:Now an HBO limited series starring Ben Mendelsohn!�??

Evil has many faces...maybe even yours in this #1 New York Times bestseller from master storyteller Stephen King.
An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is discovered in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens�??Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon have DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad.

As the investigation expands and horrifying details begin to emerge, King's story kicks into high gear, generating strong tension and almost unbearable suspense. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy, but is he wearing another face? When the answer comes, it will shock you as only Stephen Kin

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